Florida Ports Are Open 24/7, Waiting To Offload Your Cargo!

Florida Ports are open 24/7, 365 day’s per year, and are ready to partner with your cargo to be smoothly offloaded and sent on its way to its destination. Let’s face it, practically everything in California is mucked-up, and their ports are no exception. From high taxes to homeless people sleeping on the streets, California is a leftist dream. Thank GOD For Florida, the Sunshine State!

Daily Mail reports: The Florida port authority is inviting steamships waiting to dock in California to divert via the Panama Canal to the sunshine state, where there are no backlogs. The Jacksonville Port Authority said it’s the solution to an unprecedented logjam at The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, where weeks-long queues are slowing commerce ahead of the year’s busiest shopping season. It’s a sharp contrast from the scene in Jacksonville, which officials said has maintained terminal fluidity, and set a new container volume record – despite market disruptions.

Florida ports council president Michael Rubin said they can expedite cargo ship movement by rerouting container ships via the Panama Canal, a seven-day journey from Southern California to Northern Florida.  ‘We have the opportunity to provide those shipping lines and beneficial cargo owners a more efficient route that can get their product not only to the third-largest domestic market in the country but also to other markets outside of Florida, within two days,’ Rubin told ABC Action News. ‘We realize how important it is to get those goods to market, to not be the grinch that stole Christmas.’ The Jacksonville port set a new container volume record in May when it moved nearly 129,000 twenty-foot equivalent units through its terminals.

Click Orlando reports: With the White House saying incremental progress has been made in alleviating the bottleneck in the global supply chain, Gov. Ron DeSantis took another swipe Tuesday at the Biden administration as he pitched using Florida ports for cargo ships logjammed in California. “We’re here. We have the capacity,” Ron DeSantis said of Florida’s 15 ports and related transportation infrastructure during an appearance at Jacksonville’s JAXPORT. DeSantis, who has made a hallmark of challenging the White House on a variety of issues, highlighted state spending on roads, ports, rail infrastructure, and workforce training during Tuesday’s appearance, touting incentives packages offered by state ports to entice shipping companies to reroute operations.

We have to make sure people can go Christmas shopping as normal. We have to make sure that all the necessities are there. And if it’s because ships are sitting off the coast somewhere else, they can be rerouted here, so we can get all those shelves stocked, then we want to be a part of that solution. Meanwhile, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki pointed to progress in dealing with the supply chain issues. She cited further partnerships between labor and port leaders, noting the Union Pacific Railroad is joining the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is going to 24-hour operations, while the amount of cargo sitting on docks for 13 days or longer has been cut in half.

The president is satisfied that progress continues to be made, Jen Psaki said trying to spin the reporters. One of the reasons that there has been so much traffic in a lot of these ports is because there are more goods that are being ordered by people across the country, people have more money, expendable resources, their wages are up, more people are working than they were a year ago. And port to port it’s different, but statistically, some of these ports have 20 percent, 30 percent increased volume as a result of that. The supply-chain problems have spurred heavy political debate, with Republicans criticizing the Biden administration’s handling of the issue, including DeSantis and others raising the specter of the problems affecting Christmas holiday shopping.